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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.

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Textron Tsunami USV deck

A drone boat with no crew has to throw a quadcopter into the air, follow it, watch it hit something, then catch it again on a deck rolling in open sea with nobody standing there to grab it, and America wants one in the water in 29 days

07.31.2026
Proteus AR1100 tidal turbine Naru Strait Japan

While an Alaskan startup gets ready to test a tidal prototype in a Massachusetts canal, the same turbine family America wants to install has been certified and feeding Japan’s national grid for over a year

07.31.2026
Diablo Canyon intake structure cooling water Pacific

Four 13,000-horsepower pumps drag 1.7 million gallons of the Pacific a minute through California’s last nuclear plant and push it back into the cove 20 degrees warmer, and the law letting them do it runs out in 2030

07.30.2026
mazama geothermal

A volcano the size of Rhode Island in central Oregon holds rock at 629 degrees just 9,800 feet down, and a Texas company cracked it open with two wells and pumped water through the gap at 100 feet an hour

07.30.2026
Lunwei East floating solar Changhua Taiwan

A 181-megawatt Taiwanese solar plant floats at high tide and settles onto the seabed when the water goes out, twice a day, and over 25 years it works out to 12 percent more electricity than the identical plant onshore

07.30.2026
saildrone boat

A 23-foot drone sailboat hit 39.7 mph surfing down a 55-foot wave inside a hurricane, about twenty times its normal cruising speed, and NOAA has 26 more drones parked across the Atlantic waiting for the next one

07.30.2026
DUNE steel beam Ross Shaft SURF lowering

A 43-foot steel beam weighing 15,890 pounds rides 4,850 feet down an old South Dakota gold mine standing upright in a cage 4.5 feet wide, one of roughly 2,100 pieces that have to make the same trip before summer ends

07.30.2026
partenope boring machine

A 4,000-ton machine named Partenope has been turning a 44-foot cutting wheel through the hills east of Salerno for 17 months, 18 electric motors pouring 10 megawatts into that one wheel, and nobody outside the site will say how much of the tunnel is left

07.30.2026
deep fision nuclear reactor

A US startup drilled an eight-inch hole 6,000 feet into Kansas to prove the rock would hold a reactor, and the prototype that goes down the next one arrived this month. One borehole would make 15 megawatts; the fuel to run it is a 2027 problem

07.30.2026
gazelle wind power

While China holds its floating turbines steady with 15,000 tonnes of concrete moored off Guangdong, a startup in a northern Portuguese port is betting most of that mass is dead weight, and plans to prove it with a counterweight and three arms

07.30.2026
isotopes fusion machine

A Wisconsin machine fuses hydrogen every day and throws away the energy every other fusion company on Earth is chasing, keeping only the neutrons that fly out and firing them into liquid uranium to make the isotope behind 40,000 American scans a day

07.29.2026
big blue crane

A 1,100-ton crane as tall as a 20-story building left Wisconsin standing straight up on a barge and has been under tow ever since, 9,000 nautical miles through the St. Lawrence locks and the Panama Canal, never once lying down

07.29.2026
CR450 bullet train

While America just signed the construction contract for its first stretch of true high-speed track, China says the train it built to carry passengers at 249 mph has cleared its type tests and is halfway through the trial mileage required before anyone boards

07.29.2026
solar panels during solar eclipse sky

While Texas covered its 2024 eclipse by ramping up natural gas plants, Europe meets its own on August 12 with a battery fleet that doubled to 29 gigawatts in a single year, the first continent-scale test of whether storage does what gas did

07.29.2026
GARC unmanned surface vessel Navy

An American drone boat weighing 4,800 pounds just sailed past the missile holes in a 40,000-ton warship off Hawaii and blew a fresh one at the waterline, outweighed by the ship it was attacking roughly 16,000 to one

07.29.2026
Liebherr T 264 battery electric Fortescue

A 240-ton mining truck with nobody in the cab now drives itself onto a pad where a robot arm plugs it in, and the charger behind that arm pushes 6 megawatts, about two dozen Tesla Superchargers aimed at one vehicle

07.29.2026
T2D tunnel boring machine Elizabeth Adelaide

The third 3,500-ton borer under Adelaide is the strange one: she digs 1.4 miles north, then crews take her apart, spin a 2,000-ton block of cutterhead and drive around, and rebuild her to come straight back, because a fourth machine costs more

07.29.2026
Xcel sherco solar farm

Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep spinning, fuel-free, to steady the solar that replaced it

07.29.2026
gardena tunnel

Italy just started boring the ramp to the world’s longest rail tunnel with one 2,000-ton machine that has to be taken apart and hauled backward through its own hole to dig the second tube

07.28.2026
REDstack Blue Energy Breezanddijk

The world’s first plant making electricity from salt water meeting fresh sits in a small blue building on a Dutch dike, switched on by a king in 2014, and hitting its own 50-kilowatt label would take 37 football fields of membrane

07.28.2026
bornholm energy island

A Danish island of 39,500 people hangs off the grid by a single 60-megawatt cable and is being rewired to gather 3 gigawatts of Baltic wind, and the first real price just landed: the buildings ran 85 percent over, not the cable

07.28.2026
diggy scardust boring machine

A 2,050-ton machine named Diggy Scardust is grinding a 39-foot hole under Toronto with 23 million pounds of thrust, three and a half years into a drive specced at 49 feet a day, eight months of which it spent not moving at all

07.28.2026
aurora solar

Australia built the receiver for a solar tower running on liquid sodium, a metal liquid from 208 to 1,621 degrees Fahrenheit, and while the finished machine sits in a Brisbane suburb, its land just signed up for AI data centers

07.28.2026
Lufeng CA01 module hoisting CGN

China just lowered a 950-tonne steel room into a reactor building in Guangdong, the same numbered part whose American twin was set inside a South Carolina reactor in July 2015 and has waited in an unfinished building ever since

07.28.2026
colossal crane nuclear reactor darlington

A 606-ton steel can 98 feet long is taking shape in an Ontario factory, the piece that turns Canada’s first small modular reactor from a hole in the ground into a machine, and exactly one shop on the continent has started one

07.28.2026
greyshark hydrogen submarine

While America’s 80-ton drone submarine runs on diesel and batteries, the German hydrogen one is built to hold sixteen weeks below without surfacing once, and the first two governments buying it will not say who they are

07.28.2026
orka dock drone

A German box on the back of a crewless boat opens in under 30 seconds, throws a drone into the air and catches it again on a deck pitching at 15 knots, guided down by a laser reading the drop to the width of three stacked pennies

07.27.2026
Monash fuel cell membrane hydrogen

A hydrogen fuel cell manufactures water every second it runs and dies the moment its insides dry out, so Australian engineers just built a membrane with no water in it at all and ran a cell bone dry at 482 degrees Fahrenheit

07.27.2026
stella juve solar

Dutch students just unveiled an ambulance that runs everything on sunlight, the X-ray, the ultrasound, the vaccine cooler and the wheels themselves, built to be parked as the clinic in villages past the last power line

07.27.2026
Hartlepool reactor graphite

Britain just bought two more years from a pair of reactors built to last 25 and generating since 1983, 28 terawatt hours for 8.4 million homes, all riding on graphite bricks that crack on a one-way street and cannot be replaced

07.27.2026
ECL MV-1 hydrogen data center Mountain View

A California data center has run for two years with no power line at all, making its own electricity from hydrogen and cooling its 1,800 GPUs with the water that drips out of the fuel cells, and it just ordered stacks for a bigger one

07.27.2026
Mutriku breakwater storm waves

While America’s flagship wave power site sits wired and empty off Oregon, a breakwater in a Spanish town of 5,000 turned 15 this month with more operating hours than anything in wave energy, and an Australian turbine just signed on to join it

07.27.2026
ITER sector module lift crane

Two cranes rated 1,500 tons together are carrying about 1,400 tons of fusion reactor wedge in France today, four hooks reading 350 tons each, on a lift where the spare margin is thinner than anyone would like and there is no second attemp

07.27.2026
SolarDuck Merganser North Sea

A raft of solar platforms riding several meters above the North Sea has now survived two winters 7.5 miles off the Dutch coast, certified for 38-foot waves, by standing on columns and letting the sea pass underneath instead of taking the hit

07.27.2026
Viking Libra float out Fincantieri Ancona

The first cruise ship ever built to run on liquid hydrogen will crane its fuel aboard in containers at port calls, because not one cruise port on Earth can pump the stuff, and the cells will push about a third of a 54,300-ton hull

07.26.2026
Hell's Kitchen lithium Imperial Valley

A shrinking California lake sits on enough dissolved lithium for 375 million EV batteries, more than every car on American roads, and the plant named Hell’s Kitchen plans to pull it from the same scalding brine that already spins its turbines

07.26.2026
JET tokamak interior Culham

Britain just enlisted America’s biggest fusion startup to prove a reactor can breed its own fuel, turning lithium into tritium with the machine’s own neutrons, because the world’s entire supply weighs one packed carry-on and shrinks 5.5% a year

07.26.2026
solar jet fuel swiss

A Swiss airline became the first anywhere to fly on kerosene made from sunlight, a 190-liter barrel cooked by a field of mirrors in Germany, refined alongside fossil crude in an ordinary refinery and pumped into Hamburg Airport’s normal supply

07.26.2026
Rogfast tunnel roundabout

While Germany and Denmark lower 73,500-ton concrete boxes onto the Baltic and watch the schedule slip, Norway is blasting a deeper road under worse rock on time, two roundabouts 820 feet below the sea already carved from the stone

07.26.2026
Trident II D5 missile launch surface

An American submarine throws its 130,000-pound nuclear missiles, heavier than one and a half loaded semi trucks, out of a bone-dry tube with two inches of clearance per side, and the rocket only fires once the weapon has cleared the sea

07.26.2026
Rance tidal power station aerial

While America’s closest shot at tidal power is a 5-megawatt pilot still on paper, France has been pulling 240 megawatts out of the same estuary since de Gaulle cut the ribbon, with turbines that spin whichever way the water moves

07.26.2026
Fraunhofer Bavarian Lake Solar Panels

Germany stood 2,600 solar panels dead upright on a Bavarian lake, edge-on to the sun, because a law says you can shade 15% of the water and not an inch more, and the rows lean like sails on underwater keels when the wind loads up

07.26.2026
UCLA plastic waste hydrogen reactor

American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic’s carbon came out as solid rock

07.25.2026
Herrenknecht San Jose boring machine

Germany just finished the machine for America’s widest subway tunnel, a 54-foot borer whose motor alone weighs more than 300 tons, and the five-mile San Jose tube it was built to dig is still on the drawing board with no sailing date booked

07.25.2026
PNNL uranium seawater

America just handed out the federal recipe for mining uranium from the ocean instead of the ground: cheap yarn, chemically treated until the metal sticks to it, left soaking in seawater for weeks, proven so far at five grams, the weight of a nickel

07.25.2026
stmu auv turkish

While the Pentagon’s 80-ton drone submarine, the size of a subway car, is still officially a minelayer, Turkey unveiled a 17.8-ton one specced to fire the full-size torpedoes of a crewed boat and launch an anti-ship missile from underwater

07.25.2026
RivGen Kvichak river Alaska

A turbine the size of half a basketball court has sat invisible on an Alaskan riverbed since 2019, powering a village of 70 where diesel lands 2,000 gallons at a time on old DC-4 planes, and Congress just moved to stop licensing it like Hoover Dam

07.25.2026
pacwave south project

While every wave machine you have seen floats where the storms live, the generator first in line for America’s first commercial berth hides underwater, braking itself when the sea turns ugly, and it still has not left the dock

07.25.2026
Blue Ops Variant 7 USV

The exploding drone boats that rattled Russia’s Black Sea fleet just landed an American factory, 26 feet of hull hauling 1,430 pounds of payload 800 nautical miles on a single tank of fuel, set to be built by the hundred in Oregon

07.25.2026
lower thames crossing boring machine

Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end

07.24.2026
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